NetApp and Storage hardware terminology

Storage systems that run Data ONTAP are sometimes referred to as filers, storage appliances, or systems.
Controller or Storage controller refers to the component of a storage system that runs the Data ONTAP.

* FC HBA for Disk or FC HBA refers to the Fibre Channel (HBA) Host Bus Adapter
that connects the node to the switch or to the disks
* Disk shelf is a unit of the disk subsystem component of the storage system. Disk shelves,
which hold disks and associated hardware.
* LRC (Loop Resiliency Circuit) disk shelf module that keeps the Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) intact during the
addition and removal of disks within a disk shelf.
* ESH (Embedded Switching Hub) disk shelf module that provides a means of managing an FC-AL loop in an intelligent manner,
such that a single drive failure does not take down the loop.
* FilerView graphical user interface for NetApp